She is recovering at the Center for Wildlife in York after being hit by a truck several weeks ago. Alice and some other turkeys found themselves in the path of a pickup truck on the road outside Limerick on Nov. 1.

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"Two of (the turkeys) scooted back, and one squatted down and (Alice) got hit," said Meg Lord, of East Parsonsfield.

Lord, the driver of the pickup and another woman all stopped to help.

"When I went over to her, I spoke to her really quietly and said, 'I'm going to put the blanket over you,' and I reached down and picked her up and she was huge. She just felt huge in my arms," Lord said.

Lord buckled Alice into the passenger seat of her truck and took her home.

"I just drove with my flashers all the way home," Lord said.

The next day, she took Alice to the center. Workers said the bird had a broken wing and a brain injury, but she's doing much better.

"The fracture has healed, but because it's been wrapped for so long, the joints are a little stiff, so right now we're doing physical therapy. The wing is no longer wrapped, but we have to stretch the wing twice a day to try to release some of that stiffness in the wing, so that she's able to use it," said Erin Burns, wildlife specialist at Center for Wildlife.

Burns said it's a good time of the year for Alice to be cooped.

"It is hunting season for turkeys, so she kind of gets a pass this year, I guess," Burns said.

The turkey is expected to be released back into the wild long after Mainers have finished digesting their Thanksgiving dinners.